Πολύ καλή η μετάφραση του Δ. Καλογύρη ο οποίος έχει ουσιαστικά ξαναγράψει το έργο σε σύγχρονα Ελληνικά. Πραγματικά γέλαγα πάρα πολύ διαβάζοντας το και πέρα από την σάτιρα του "παππού" Λουκιανού μια μεγάλη σεινεισφορά οφείλεται στην μετάφραση
Πολύ όμορφα τα κολάζ επίσης. Ένα μικρό διαμαντάκι στην βιβλιοθήκη. Συστήνω μετάφραση στα Αγγλικά. World needs to know!

Dieciséis siglos antes que Julio Verne, Luciano escribió un viaje de la Tierra a la Luna donde había una especie de televisor en el que ver lo que ocurría en casa. Cinco relatos que avanzan toda la ciencia ficción, fantasía, terror y picaresca que se escribió en épocas posteriores.

Disfruto leyendo libros así porque reflejan fórmulas que siguen reproduciéndose, la sátira y la fabulación fantástica. Mi interés por estos libros también está unido a un interés histórico y mitológico que se ve reflejado de una forma real. Leer libros de una etapa siempre me pareció una buena forma de acercarse realmente a ese periodo histórico, quizás de una forma menos técnica o rigurosa, pero como complemento y entendiendo el contexto la encuentro más humana.
De este libro sobre todo me han gustado Relatos verídicos e Icaromenipo. Realmente los encuentro divertidos e interesantes, aunque el estilo simple y poco construido se aleja mucho de como puede ser el estilo narrativo actual, cosa que podría chocar a mucha gente.

Absolutely hilarious, I loved all the funny/teasing references to literature and mythology

You know what? I believe him!

Lucian of Samosata's Storia Vera/ True Story/ Vera Historia/ True History

2AD Science-Fantasy Parody Disstrack Story

Honestly, more books should open with direct call outs of their contemporaries.

The first science fiction. First science fantasy.

Does it come across like the ramblings of someone with untreated ADHD and a trough of edibles and mushrooms?
Absolutely.

Is it more interesting and inspired than a whole lot of science fiction and fantasy between when it was published between them and now?
Absolutely.

It's not the most beautiful prose, but the man has the imagination and library card of a drag queen of the John Waters variety. RuPaul aint got a fracking thing on this sassy, gassy, salt deposit.

Lucian truly said of Homer and his contemporaries, They Not Like Us.

https://youtu.be/GZRiLYOM7-k?si=D8dyUbbADNBQYa3Z

CN. Illustration of Spiders on WikiPage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story

The title 'True History' is is used very much in the sense of Barney Stinson's catch phrase 'true story'. The reading experience is something like tall tales of Baron Munchausen (the temptation to do a parody review was too strong) -there is same humor caused by the obvious nature of the lies. Except unlike Baron Munchausen, our narrator doesn't do great things, great things keep happening to him.

A lot of the things in here are now science-fiction elements - flying ships, aliens, liquid air etc. In that way, it is quite ahead of its age. FOr example, sun and moon are treated as bodies having aliens - which is probably not true but far better than most writers of his time who treated them as individual gods. That is why I read it. I thought it was (oldest) science fiction. Most of world is reading 'The Martin' - I'm only 2200 years behind.

However I'm not sure if it is science fiction. The expressed aim is satirizing famous Greek tall-tale tellers like Homer. Narrator's journey is a beck-benchor's parody of all that was ancient Greek including of famous Greek personalities like Socrates (who is constantly playing fool), Aristotle, Homer, Ulysses, Helen (she runs away - again) etc. It is good to see that ancient Greeks weren't without sense of humor.

Absolutely hilarious, I loved all the funny/teasing references to literature and mythology